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Author Yang, Myungji, 1978- author.

Title From miracle to mirage : the making and unmaking of the Korean middle class, 1960-2015 / Myungji Yang.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 183 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents An imagined middle class : the birth of the ideal national subject, 1961-1979 -- The rise of Gangnam style : real estate and middle-class dreams, 1978-1996 -- The betrayed dream of the Korean middle class, 1997-2015 : status anxiety and the collapse of middle-class myths.
Summary Myungji Yang's From Miracle to Mirage is a critical account of the trajectory of state-sponsored middle-class formation in Korea in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Subject Middle class -- Korea (South)
Middle class.
Korea (South)
Social status -- Korea (South)
Social status.
Korea (South) -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Yang, Myungji, 1978- From miracle to mirage. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501710735 (DLC) 2017028420 (OCoLC)989965525
ISBN 9781501710742 (pdf)
1501710745
9781501710759 (epub/mobi)
1501710753
9781501710735
1501710737